First porter proposal for "Yes Yes Yes Alternative Press" exhibition in Foligno, Perugia. The exhibition deals with Provo publications in Europe, until the revolutionary underground American prints of the sixties and seventies and the Punk period of 1977.

From Arts and Crafts wallpaper to public transport’s fabrics.
Whether designed or left to chance, analyzing a pattern
means considering the cultural landscape in which it is realized,
in addition to the psychological and symbolic factors that compose it.
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digital print
size 12,5 x 17,5 cm
pp. 300 + 230
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ISIA Urbino 2017
MA in Communication and Design for Publishing
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Supervisor
Mauro Bubbico

Richard Ginori, currently GRG, is one of the world most important Italian companies in the production of porcelain.
Besides its artistic value, the history of this company literally came into Italian homes. Everyone, consciously or not, has eaten in dishes or cups designed by the workers of this historic company.

The project started at ISIA Urbino, during the Editorial Design course held by Leonardo Sonnoli. The aim was to design a volume about an important Italian company. But a story that has almost three hundred years is not easy to tell; that’s why it was decided to realize a nontraditional monograph.

The book wants to recount how we came in contact with the manufacture’s world and what we discovered and learned from this unique experience. The volume retraces our steps, in chronological order, from the first research phase to the factory visit, ending with a personal interpretation of the history of the Ginori Manufactory, decomposing the historical decorations of the company and by linking with other factory of the same period.

DI MANO IN MANO is a project about craft issues of Valle del Metauro, that aims to open a debate between local artisans and institutions. The event took place on saturday June 7th 2014, at Barco Ducale of Urbania, in collaboration with seven craftsmen, Mara Pradarelli (goldsmith), Orazio Bindelli and Silvio Biagini (ceramists), Vera Baffioni and Maria Rita Montori (tombolo artisans), Giancarlo Ferri and Giacomo Ferri (cobblers). The project collects testimonies, memories and experiences about the “Old crafts”, trying to link the old and the new generations. The event was consisted in a conference on “Crafts status”, a ceramic workshop, an artifacts exhibition and a live craftsmen demonstration. The project has been developed by ISIA Urbino students Guido Dal Prà, Davide Eucalipto, Cecilia Negri and Andrea Saccavini, during the Graphic design course held by Roberto Pieracini.
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Through their personal experience and their professionalism, the artisans — Mara Pradarelli (goldsmith), Orazio Bindelli and Silvio Biagini (ceramists), Vera Baffioni and Maria Rita Montori (tombolo artisans), Giancarlo Ferri and Giacomo Ferri (cobblers) — gave a real perspective on the current state of the crafts, the problem of the generation gap and the possibility of new ways to spread the craft knowledge.
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The workshop, in collaboration with the association “Amici della ceramica” of Urbania, was divided in two parts. During the first one — titled "Blind Crete" — the participants, blindfold, modeled the crete using only the feeling of touch, with the final surprise of the result. The second part was instead organized by Orazio Bindelli, who taught to the participants how to model the ceramic with the lathe.
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In the main hall, located in the West Wing of Barco Ducale, was staged an exhibition dedicated to the old crafts analyzed. Each craftsman presented some work tools and artifacts to the public.

Invention as a mith, the recovery of forms from the past and from the present as the only tool to communicate a world made of complex information. The use of appropriation and juxtaposition of various aesthetics will become in the Seventies and Eighties suddenly unavoidable. The book examines into these tecniques during the postmodern era.

Richard Ginori, currently GRG s.r.l., is one of the world most important Italian company that produces porcelain.
It was born in 1735 and nowadays is still using the same old manufacturing methods that define products’ uniqueness. For this important reason, it has been decided to create a digital monograph of the company to depict its story, through an item that has always characterized it: the decoration.

Andata e ritorno is a free monthly magazine made for the everyday italian commuter.
Each issue focuses on a different theme, which is discovered through the four sections:
people, arts and expressions, society, environment.
Different colours of paper – light yellow, green, blue or pink – and matched ink distinguish each issue form the previous one.

Botanical books often contain many different types of information: texts, illustrations, diagrams, lists and so on.
All items that are not easy to represent graphically. This book is a small collection of 13 botanical volumes that stood out from the standards of their time — from the fifteenth century to the 60s of the twentieth century — with alternative and creative graphic solutions.

How do you live your city? The imprint urbino project was created for and with the inhabitants of Urbino, Italy, with the purpose of increasing the citizen's awareness of the city he lives in.
A guide to this project leads the designer through the participatory performances and practices which should be needed in order to recreate imprint in every city and circumstance.
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The guide is divided into two different books: the first is a larger volume that documents the whole research; the second, smaller book is a practical manual, with instructions to bring the imprint project in any other city.
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The imprint urbino project has positioned more than thirty QR codes around the city of Urbino. The codes were nodes of the city, created to tell short stories or little curiosities about the places where they were located. People were furthermore asked by the codes to leave their own stories related to the place. The performance was promoted with posters around the city, and the codes were revealed by maps. The nodes were active for thirty days. Almost a hundred stories were collected, to create a new discourse about the city.
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After a month an event in the city gave the stories, joined together, back to the citizens. Stories were projected on the walls of the city and simultaneously printed randomly by a thermal printer, in order that everyone could take and read a small bracket of the city's life.

Short essay about the relation between man and nature in participatory art. A parallel between movements like Guerrilla Gardening and artists that use aggregation techniques connected to the natural world, to renovate derelict and disused areas, transforming them into artworks.

The "Yes Yes Yes - Alternative Press" exhibition, held in Urbino at Collegio Tridente
in June 2014, deals with the 60s and 70s and the social, political, artistic and cultural
events that have defined the counterculture.

The outrageous contents of the underground magazines of that time reflected
the achievements of a new society which was in conflict with the official power.
The graphic layout was subversive and innovative. These publications helped to revolutionize the aesthetics of modern society.

Cecilia was born in Trento, but she didn't stay there for long. She started with a degree in Communication Design, and then decided to specialise in Editorial Design at ISIA in Urbino. She has always used drawings to communicate, but only recently discovered illustration as a job. A dedicated insect breeder, she also spends most of her money on books.

I was born in Trento, Italy, in 1991. After obtaining a Bachelor Degree in Communication Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan, I am now enrolled in the second year of the Master in Communication, Design and Publishing at ISIA University in Urbino. I regularly contribute as a graphic designer to "Meet the Media Guru", a platform that organizes meetings with international practicioners of digital culture and innovation, and Spazio, a free magazine for children. I recently completed the illustrations for Art Stories, an application designed to help children discover art in the main Italian cities.
I like insects and desaturated colors.